2 weeks Ago
Question: I am a single mum with an eight-year-old daughter. Her father and I split up when she was a baby and she has a great relationship with him and sees him regularly. She lives with me the majority of the time; I am also in a relationship with a man I met a couple of years ago.
He also has a child around the same age but his relationship with his ex is very fractious. His child stays with him every second weekend and there is some distance involved. We have decided to move in together — I have a family-sized home — and I am having second thoughts.
All the focus is being put on his child — having their own room, having a particular room that is bigger than my daughter’s and all these other provisions that make me feel like my daughter and I are secondary. I am also worried that my daughter will feel uncomfortable in her home with all these changes. I feel like I will lose control of my dominion.
In fairness to my partner, his ex is driving some of this, but not all. I suppose my question is, do blended families ever work and what do you need to do to enable that?.
